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Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Walking along Gallery Road yesterday, you could > see the purposeful confusion at work. On some > parts you must park with wheels on the pavement > intermingled with others where you must park > completely on the road. There seems to be no > rhyme nor reason as to why each bit is designated > the way it is, and certainly no reason for the > whole road not to be 'wheels on'. The signs > showing which bit is which are vague. > > Unsurprisingly, the wardens had a field day. yes! they love carters steam fair and events at bueaberry house. just a quick funny for you, A while ago I parked in Clapham Manor street. When I'd finished my job I came out and pointed my keys at the car. pressed door unlock nothing happened. "Oh no" I thought "mustve left the lights on battery flat".Turned out, no! Id screwed up, parked in residents (with my paid for ticket on display!)had my car towed and an identical car parked in my place.I didnt realise till I spotted a strange hat on the backseat. sheesh.

theres a mention on the thread (scrolled must have missed it) where the lorries full of speakers that would turn up in clapham common. theyd just open a tarp that ran down the sides of the truck and blast the quite substantial crowd.we al knew to meet there.. people hanging off lamposts and stuff. was very fun. Last night my friend was playing bongoes in a bar in clapham arches. I was thinking how lost the spirirt of clapham back then is now.

just remebered a stunning show i saw once by accident. someone had a couple of tickets they couldnt use. Was i think in oxford in about 1979/80., was Doctor hook and the medecine show. hard to describe how excellent they were. sounds funny to say it. it was however more a mixture of comedy and music then just the songs. they just have a way.

ah yeah ace cinema. One place I used to go a lot was in victoria. was it 'the venue?' sound right? saw beefhart, grace jones,alan vega amongst others there. v early 80's. ice cream for crow time, beefhart. was a cool place. I saw mick jagger and lou reed sitting together there onetime. they were mashed. First time i ever saw blixa out of bad seeds/einsterzende neubaten he was hanging off that glass pained front door waiting for a friend or something. He looked part cool part nuts.A few years later i saw them a lot and cool and nuts is about right. I was outside the hacienda very recently. very weird. I too used to bug out occasionally there. For me music started young, black sabbath was the first and got instantly hooked on gigs. 74. Next after that is one of the best shows I ever saw, John Martyn solo at the Marquee wardour st. The audience sat on the floor! on that manky beer soaked carpet they sat. Frank zappa at hammersmith 75 was amazing too. eno and 801 at reading a stunner. One thing that im pissed about still now is, a bunch of college m8s then went to see bob marley and mum wouldnt let me go. I missed bob marley at the rainbow! aaagh. silly mum. birthday party at the lyceum. joy division at the moonlight club hampstead.could go on and on. shaddap! nm to quote tom waites.."I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

club uk haha! crazy place. Caribbean club oxford the Dug out Bristol dingwalls high on hope warehouse parties kings x Shoom Confusion Megatripolis Heaven Misery of sound (1st 2 years then outta there) Bass clef/blue note Lost the drop (plink plonk parties) Dance wikid milk bar Feel Real (gardening club) Brixton academy all nighters, energy+ Metalhedz crazy parties in the mountains of europe for snowboard competitions.(dj'd at those, learnt to board for free! yay) voltaire road and valencia place, various gaffs brixton.studio parties. 90's kicked arse. mind you 80's did deffo generally for me. lotsa motorway drives

not bad! small menu, nice coffee, staff friendly. Not kidded up to the nines. gr8 for us. we can choose between creche life or quiet life in peckrye/forest hill road. Swingin' up here now. Its a bit meaty is my only diss. Small bother. Theres a few things to eat but mainly its a coffee joint anyhow.Coffee and cake. yum.

blinder999 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I feel for you - we used to live next door to a > nutter on Adys Rd - the music used to start at > about 11pm and get louder and louder until about > 5am. The guy used to bellow along to the lyrics. > Bizarrely, he always listened to The Smiths. they gots serious problems.

madness.

thx v much for all your constructive replies. few things to think about there.

its apparently called. Having a problem with it. Many of us would admit to being rough on our younger bro/sis. Its natural. Its a bloody pain. One continiously try to get the other in trouble, really dumb moves like writing the siblings name on the wall then exhibiting what "she has done!look!" except the little one cant actually write so.. Thats a small example a bigger one would be threatening to throw lil one out of the window whilst ganging up with older kids. It can get nasty and dangerous. Secret pinches and punches is normal. background would be, mother away all day at work back in the evening (knacked) and therefore a small window of attention to compete for. Smaller issues, llke the older one feeling 'blamed' for everything (not so) and hating having to help tidy the younger ones mess with me before mother is home. Any getting angry and laying down the law has to be carefully done or you see like a mirror, your own character attributes as the older one gets angry at the little one. Yet peaceful negotiation isnt working, naughty step worked on telly not here. ages are 6 and almost 4. So, as I hate being angry and having to boss em about like I have previously, all ideas welcomed. Im trying to avoid a low self esteem kicking in on the older also. ive noticed a few things there and I feel its all connected. Could go on but theres a hefty start.

Am going through a huge Soft Machine phase at the moment. ditto. you tubes great for really early glimpses. Ive got a fun story about one of them. The keyboard guy with the dark glasses Mike. I used to live a few doors down from him in Hackney. I could see over his garden from my bedsit. In that garden was just flat earth, no grass or beds or borders. Mud. In the very middle of that was one daffodil plant. He had a beaten up old porsche that was festooned inside with sheet music. Also a wife who wore the same kind of rectangular shades as he. Kind of kept his head down, but did well on the "Im a fan , like your music a lot".

Ok, point taken, usually all this toilet and kids in the pub stuff works smoothly. I'll shaddap now about it and you will avoid me by drinking in uplands.hehe.

no she didnt apologise,apparently i hear she did however run out after one of the guys and give him a baby bottle he'd left on the table. 1 point back! I wouldnt be ass'd to write to them and so on, too much to do but thanks for support. I was cheesed at the time.

Hi Rosie, the pub was very empty. just us in there and a about 3 guys at the bar by the loo door. She was chatting with them and would have seen us all at some point escorting kids to the loos right behind them. There were 2 ladies at a table outside both of whom I knew where at the table out there. I stood at the ladies loo door holding it open calling my daughter. Doing the 'Im not going in thing,unless i have to, being cautious.'. But daughter didnt answer and was hiding behind the cubicle door. I was in there a tiny amount of time, as when i saw she was being playful, I just said hurry up! and backstepped out the door in to the pub. To be honest we often had to do that with my other kid. She'd get in a kerfuffle in there sometimes and we'd have to do the calling from the slightly opened door or occaisionally going in to rescue. Always checking nobody is going to be disturbed. The other side to the coin is a lady walking over with your child from the loos asking 'is this your daughter? she was stuck!" because you didnt keep an eye out, or ou knew there occupants already and couldnt get in. Ive had to ask people if they wouldnt mind going in and checking. Anyway, kids + pubs, has to be done sometimes. Its all simple for me. Just not going there again. shame. it was good for us once.

its not a big deal, some guys dont like kids around in pubs.

Ladygooner you are one lucky gal. On thee tom waites tip, this is a v fun piece of film. waites and pop oh, Acid Mother temple at corsica studios elephant and castle. was cool a few weeks back. anyone else from here go?

When prince Nazeem (that right?) did a foit! at docklands , I had 2 Americans staying with me. It was actually their honeymoon to come to London, not being hugely loaded, it made it doable for them if they stayed at mine. They bought their tickets on line. It was the only time they used their credit card. They had 2000 dollars gift money in the bank from family. It was all stolen. They did get compensation in the end, from their insurance.

keep an eye out for that recent docu of Scott W. Its great.

when people are rude to you in places of public service, they oughta be a bit more aware of the way the world has changed. Ie a vast amount of people could read a post like this. I used to love uplands. Our dads club would go in there every wednesday armed with brats.We'd get a good deal on food, theyd even try to extract the ciggie smoke. Staff were really friendly. we tipped in return. today. coupla years later I went in with 2 guys and their kids and my 3 year old. My one, a girl likes to use the toilet by herself because she can do it now. So she goes to the ladies. Unfortunately sometimes she cant get out. So i have to go hold a door or whatever. She was in there ages so I had to rescue. Barmaid who served us (indeed put food in front of the kids) says loudly to me "Stay out of the Ladies". I looked her said "WHat"? She repeated. (empowered probably by all her beefy mates sitting by her). "stay out of the ladies.". Im a perv? I cant see the sign? I get my kiks? wtf was she thinking? I was watching that loo door constantly while my kid was in there so I knew if someone else was in there. Its normal. Little girls in the gents doesnt work Im afraid.Im a pro, ive done 6 years of dadding so I know. A lot of men give you the viibes when you do that. not joking. If there are ladies in the ladies, you ask a lady to help your kid if stuck. simple. Upside to uplands is maybe this could be the kid free pub some of you peeps desire. Except, they have a kids menu. Chef btw, is very friendly happy helpful geezer so I feel bad for him actually, as I slag this joint.

jimmy 2 times. thats good fellas cool name

there is a v sweet waitress there who is super nice to my girls. I think she may be Japanese. for this reason alone the place is popular with us.

lots of lightning,glows rather than distinct static flashes,lo frequency thunder claps. Really moody dont you think? turn off your computer! its close.

the moth attack has escalalted in this house. we noticed recently theres more than before.

hi bob, i was an original btopenworld customer right when they started. whenit was a 500 service, seemed super snappy ha. i saw just under 5meg when i first upgraded to 8 but its slipeed back considerably since then. so all in all i think since 2002.